Rosalee

#954 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Rosalie

Rosalee has been given to 12,900 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #954 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 346 recorded.

Babies named Rosalee, 2025

1 in 12,300

Rosalee over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rosalee: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Rosalie

Latin

What Rosalee means

Rosalee is a variant of Rosalie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rosalee → Rosalie. The family’s meaning is “rose”, recorded in English with the source elements rosa.

Origin, language, and formation

Rosalee is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rosalie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,900 girls were recorded with the name Rosalee between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 346 in 2020; its best national rank was #405 in 1938.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #788 in 2020 to #954 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,123 in 2015 to #954 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rosalee?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 12,300; 270 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 5,950; 0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025: #954; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 8,512 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Rosalee sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,512 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rosalee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rosalees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rosalee was born before 1950 — so the typical Rosalee is around 75 today.

Median birth year: 1950; About 75 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 16.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 32.7%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 6,467; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 16.1% of all recorded uses (2,080).

Is Rosalee rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −1; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −166; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: +169; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.18×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 78.0%; Peak was 2020 (346)
Years since peak: 5; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #405; 1938

Spellings of Rosalee

Rosalee is not the most common spelling — Rosalie is, with 47.7% against Rosalee's 7.3%.

Rosalie47.7%84,049
Rosalyn13.2%23,278
Rosanne8.4%14,747
Rosalee7.3%12,900
Rosalia6.1%10,664
Novalee2.6%4,567
Rosaline2.3%3,984
Rosalba1.6%2,837

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Rosalee is used

Across 2016–2025, Rosalee was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 2,083 girls, against 1 in 5,475 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 20,000).

548 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Kentucky1 in 2,083
2Missouri1 in 2,439
3Indiana1 in 2,778
4Ohio1 in 2,941
5Tennessee1 in 2,941
6Utah1 in 3,030
7Oklahoma1 in 3,125
8West Virginia1 in 3,226

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Rosalee is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 40% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Rosalee around the world

Where Rosalee ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1998–2025
#4,867
in 2025
Canada
1992–2024
#1,109
in 2024
South Australia
1948–1997
#681
in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Rosalee

People whose public names include Rosalee, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

Rosalee MasonBasketball player
b. 1979

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Rosalee by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #954
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 166
Best rank ever: #405; 1938
Peak year: 2020; 346 that year
First recorded: 1880
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 12,900
Count in 2025: 270

Names similar to Rosalee

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Roselee Roselyn Rosanna Rosanne Rosario Rosalia Roseann Rosella Rosalyn Rosetta Rosealee Roslyn Roseanne Paislee Rosita Natalee Rosalind Rosalba Roseanna Rosalina Rosina Emmalee Rosaria Rosaura

Names with a curve like Rosalee

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rosalee, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

Theodora Willa Elouise Ira Veda Nila Zelda Nola Queen Vada Georgiana Winona

Sibling names for Rosalee

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Vada Zora Sky Milena Zelda Mercy Anais Luisa

For a brother

Khalid Santana Edison Leif Marcellus Kannon Judson Leighton

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